Tales from the Dragon’s Lair

Hi you, welcome to my book blog! I’m Jess (she/her), a 32-year-old book addict from Belgium. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been passionate about stories. As a small child, I had a huge collection of notebooks filled with plots, poetry, character profiles etc. The stories I read and saw fueled my imagination and I made so many diverse friends: at first, it were Fox (The Animals of Farthing Wood ) and Campion (Watership Down), later I lost my heart to Will Scarlet (Robin Hood) and Athos (Les Trois mousquetaires). Still later on, I was fortunate enough to grow up with Harry Potter and characters like Sirius and Remus played a huge role in my life.

Being a proper Ravenclaw, I decided to combine my love for words with my passion for academics and completed a university degree in Literature and Linguistics. We focused mainly on the big names of the literary world and on “serious, adult fiction”. To be very honest: I wasn’t too impressed. To me, a good story should contain the following ingredients:

Magic

Adventure

Romance

And somehow, much of what is called “proper, serious literature” does not seem to agree with me. No wonder my book blog is about Fantasy, YA and NA fiction! 😉 I do also enjoy contemporary YA/NA as well as some of the classics of English and French literature and poetry though. But I will pick an improbable romance with lots of magic over James Joyce any day of the week!

So why Tales from the Dragon’s Lair? I assume that by now, it will not surprise you to learn that I am rather fond of fantastical beings like Dragons. As it happens, so is my boyfriend. Because of this, we decided to name our house the Dragon’s Lair. I believe it’s fair to say that I tend to hoard stories very much like a dragon does treasure 😉.

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